Virtual Self (EP)

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Virtual Self
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EP by
Virtual Self
ReleasedNovember 29, 2017 (2017-11-29)
Genre
Length20:33
Label Virtual Self
Producer Porter Robinson
Singles from Virtual Self
  1. "Eon Break"
    Released: October 25, 2017
  2. "Ghost Voices"
    Released: November 8, 2017

Virtual Self is the debut extended play (EP) by American electronic music producer Porter Robinson under the alias Virtual Self, released on November 29, 2017, through an eponymous record label. After releasing his debut studio album Worlds (2014), a deviation from his earlier sound, Robinson suffered with depression and struggled to create a similar-sounding follow-up. He then started planning the Virtual Self project, which used electronic music and Internet webpages from the early 2000s as main sources of inspiration, [lower-alpha 1] an idea Robinson became "obsessed" with. [1] [2] [3]

Contents

Robinson decided to separate his work as Virtual Self from the one under his own name, and he does not play songs from both in the same shows. The alias is represented by two characters created by Robinson: Pathselector, with mid-tempo songs, and Technic-Angel, with faster ones. Virtual Self is a trance and neotrance EP. Robinson tried to recreate sounds from the early 2000s while still incorporating modern song structures. Virtual Self's visuals present cryptic messages and a mysterious atmosphere.

Two singles were released ahead of the EP: "Eon Break" and "Ghost Voices", with the latter being nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards in 2019. Robinson toured as Virtual Self in support of the EP beginning in December 2017, and later in 2018 during his Utopia System tour. The EP sold a thousand copies in its first week of release in the United States and charted on Billboard 's Dance/Electronic Album Sales and Heatseekers Albums.

Background

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Robinson performing in 2014 on the Worlds Live tour

Porter Robinson was initially known for his "aggressive" electro and complextro sound, with releases such as the 2010 hit "Say My Name" and the 2011 EP Spitfire . [4] [5] [6] In 2012, he released "Language", his first song with a more melodic sound. [5] [7] In August 2014, Robinson released his debut studio album, Worlds , a further departure from his earlier sound. [5] [7] It was acclaimed and had a notable impact on the electronic music scene, [5] [8] with John Ochoa of DJ Mag stating that Worlds "helped usher in a welcoming environment for softer, dreamier electronic music". [4]

Following the release of the album and its reception, Robinson had set high expectations for himself in the studio. [9] He initially thought he could continue producing the sounds of Worlds, [1] but that ultimately became something he tried to resist. [2] He felt pressured to release a similar follow-up album, but he could not produce anything he found "inspiring" or "good". [4] He said he locked himself in his studio for about 12 hours a day, but he could not come up with new ideas or create anything he was satisfied with. [10] Robinson attributed these struggles to depression and self-doubt. [8] He claims to have produced a hundred demos for what would be a follow-up to Worlds, which he described as "the music of a person who was depressed and uninspired and scared and unhappy". [4]

However, Robinson started to realize that musical tropes from the early 2000s, albeit obsolete, were still interesting to him. He was also tempted to write music that he could not release under his own name, as that made him feel less pressure. [11] Later in 2015, he started planning the Virtual Self project. [1] In August 2016, Robinson released "Shelter", a collaboration with Madeon; [12] Robinson said that it was successful and, considering that Madeon "was making all of his new music that is unbelievably good", he decided to do something similar, while going "in this complete other direction". [1] In 2017, Robinson moved to London to work on the Virtual Self project. [13]

Concept and inspiration

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Dance Dance Revolution (cabinet pictured) was Robinson's first contact with electronic music.

Robinson's main inspiration for the Virtual Self project, including its sound and visuals, were the early 2000s. [lower-alpha 1] This was the period where Robinson discovered the Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) and Beatmania rhythm games, where he first heard electronic music; [4] DDR was what motivated Robinson to produce music in the first place. [3] The Virtual Self project has deep roots in nostalgia, and Robinson wanted to help define how people remembered the early 2000s. [4]

Robinson stated that the Virtual Self project was made when he was on "peak obsessiveness", [1] which made him do something he thought he should not: spend much time curating a project with apparently low commercial appeal. [2] In particular, he became "obsessed" with the general feel of the early 2000s present in The Matrix (1999), DeviantArt visuals, forum signatures and rhythm game backgrounds. [3] Robinson wanted to combine the idea of "cyber, sensibility, technology" from that time, which he described as "grunge, kind of like Linkin Park or t.A.T.u.; this sort of Eastern European vibe", with "the sense of magic", which he related to the Final Fantasy franchise and the video game Phantasy Star Online (2000). [3] With the help of The Wayback Machine, Robinson spent three years revisiting forums and websites he frequented in that period, which helped him compose "a mood board of how Virtual Self should look and sound." [2] However, Robinson said that Virtual Self was "not purely an homage", as he was not trying to recreate a specific concept, but rather his memories and feelings surrounding the era. [2]

Robinson described the music under his own name as his most "authentic and sincere soul," while, according to Billboard , Virtual Self was about "shattering his own habits, perhaps even his image". [2] He said that Virtual Self could be seen as his "attempt at alienating people". [1] According to Robinson, the project was far from being an attempt to please his fans; he wanted it to be something many of his fans would reject, as "[t]hat's a sign of success". [4] He also stated that he wanted to separate Porter Robinson music from Virtual Self music; he does not play both in the same shows. [2] [4]

Sound

Robinson wanted to blend different styles of electronic music from the early 2000s, such as jungle, trance and gabber. [13] According to Robinson, he listened to "every song" from 1998 to 2003 tagged as trance, jungle, drum and bass, breaks, and techno on Beatport; he stated he "listened to snippets of 100,000 songs" over a two-year period. [1] While he recognized many of them were "pretty uninspired and forgettable", he identified "trends of sound design and structure" that he could incorporate. [1] Robinson had to research how to authentically recreate sounds from PC Music's "hyper-modern, complex productions", by looking into early 2000s sample packs. [1] However, he also stated that he did not want Virtual Self to be exclusively made of references; he tried to include "twists" so that it would be a "somehow distorted" homage to that time period. [1] As such, while still using mostly early 2000s sounds, Robinson also tried to implement modern song structures, [1] stating that he wanted to "morph 2001 tropes into a 2017 production sensibility". [14] Robinson also particularly cited Calvin Harris's 2009 song "I'm Not Alone" as "really inspirational" for Virtual Self. [15]

Visuals

According to Robinson, one of the first things he did for the Virtual Self project was gather much imagery that evoked a "feeling of Virtual Self", which served as a basis for the album cover's appearance. He also wanted to gather dynamic graphics with a similar style to reference when working with video artists. Ultimately, the intros for the Beatmania IIDX video game series, in particular 6th Style (2001) and 7th Style (2002), were directly referenced in the video artists' work. [16] Visuals-wise, Robinson also cited the 1998 anime Serial Experiments Lain as "[o]ne of the greatest influences on this project". [16]

Virtual Self's music videos and website contain cryptic messages and questions. [1] Robinson stated that he did not want to convey specific meaning for these; [1] [3] he said Virtual Self is about creating a mysterious atmosphere. [3] He described the "methodology of Virtual Self", especially its visuals, as "chaotic". [3] His techniques to obtain these messages included translating sentences many times through Google Translate, for which he became inspired by the grammar changes and added words, as well as Markov chains. [1] Robinson also cited influences from a design trope in digital abstract art of the year 2000 "where people would put tiny text everywhere — little floating sentences that are partially blurry and transparent. You feel like they're being whispered to you by a robot." These sentences were just "atmospheric" instead of conveying a specific meaning. [1] Some of these "nonsensical sentences" were taken from arcade game boxes Robinson used to read in the early 2000s. [2]

Composition and songs

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"Ghost Voices"
"Ghost Voices", a song by Pathselector, includes elements of trance and deep house. [17]
"Eon Break"
"Eon Break", a song by Technic-Angel, includes elements of happy-hardcore and hardstyle. [18] [19]
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Media outlets described the sound of Virtual Self as neotrance [4] [16] or just trance. [19] They identified inspirations from early 2000s genres such as speedcore, [1] [6] [20] trance, [6] [17] jungle, [1] [16] rave, [1] [6] hard trance, [19] [20] eurodance, [19] house, [20] progressive house, [16] intelligent dance music, [1] hardcore, [6] J-core, [1] breakbeat, [17] garage, [20] and electro [20] and also noted similarities to rhythm game music [16] [19] — such as Dance Dance Revolution music [6] [19] — and keygen music. [19]

The Virtual Self alias is represented by two characters created by Robinson, Pathselector and Technic-Angel, which have their own Twitter accounts. [4] In the EP, the white-dressed, gold-masked Pathselector represents the tracks "Ghost Voices" and "A.i.ngel (Become God)", while Technic-Angel is a fair-skinned, dark-cloaked harbinger that represents tracks "Particle Arts", "Key" and "Eon Break". [2] Pathselector's songs were described by Robinson as neotrance, being mid-tempo, having less hardcore influences and instead a strictly trance style, while Technic-Angel's songs were described by him as "maximalist, 170 BPM, crazy hardcore, speedcore, jungle, and drum and bass". [1]

The EP begins with the Technic-Angel track "Particle Arts", "a 175-BPM juggernaut of trance stabs and happy-hardcore breaks" [19] where Robinson uses EDM-styled drum and bass with glitch elements. [17] The next track is Pathselector's "Ghost Voices", which "[combines] low-slung deep house basslines with trance-y top lines" [17] while having "soulful, halftime garage vibes", [21] energetic snare rolls and Reese bass. [19] It is followed by "A.I.ngel (Become God)", also by Pathselector, which contains "carefully sculpted vocal synths" similar to the ones found in Garden of Delete (2015) by Oneohtrix Point Never [19] and combines trance and big beat elements. [17] The last two tracks, "Key" and "Eon Break", are by Technic-Angel. The EDM-like track "Key" [17] changes its key halfway through, a common pop music trope, [19] while the trance-like "Eon Break" [17] ends the EP with "a break-neck, glittering, happy-hardcore tune" [18] that "deals in hardstyle cadences and machine-gun snares". [19]

Promotion and release

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Robinson performing as Virtual Self in Brooklyn, New York on December 8, 2017

On October 25, 2017, Robinson released the EP's first single, "Eon Break", announcing his then-new alias Virtual Self via his Twitter page. A music video for the song was released, containing cryptic messages. [18] The EP's second single, "Ghost Voices", was released on November 8, 2017. [21] On November 18, [22] Robinson announced the Virtual Self EP, making previews of its tracks available on a new website announced on Virtual Self's Twitter page. [23]

The EP was released on November 29, 2017. [24] Virtual Self's first live performance debuted on December 8, 2017, in Brooklyn, New York. [24] [25] Shows continued in 2018, with Robinson playing in U.S. festivals such as the Ultra Music Festival in Miami. [14] On January 11 that year, a music video for "Particle Arts" was released, [26] alongside one for "Ghost Voices" on February 28 [27] and one for "Key" on April 18. [28] Robinson released "Angel Voices" on July 20, 2018, a happy-hardcore infused remix of "Ghost Voices" which he described as the "Technic-Angel remix". [29] Virtual Self shows continued starting in August 2018, with the two-month North American "Utopia System" tour. [30]

In 2020, Robinson announced a Virtual Self artbook and fashion line in collaboration with Japanese brand Chloma. [31]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Pitchfork 5.9/10 [19]

Kat Bein of Billboard described the Virtual Self project as "high concept musical nerdiness" with a strong Final Fantasy influence and that the entire EP "plays like a killer soundtrack to the best mid-2000s RPG Nintendo forgot to release". [24] In his 5.9/10 review, Philip Sherburne of Pitchfork described Virtual Self as an effort to "make a headlong plunge into an aesthetic rooted in the late 1990s and early 2000s" whose rhythms are "funkless" and "hyperactive", reminiscent of Dance Dance Revolution soundtracks. The critic then pegged "Ghost Voices" as the most contemporary sounding track of the EP and said that Virtual Self focuses on the fanciest aspects of Robinson's influences, eliminating any chance of subtlety "beneath a billion-watt gleam". He finished his review by saying that Virtual Self's revamp on trance meant "the boundaries of taste are always in flux" and that, in the end, "nostalgia will rehabilitate even the shaggiest underdogs." [19] Andrew Rafter of DJ Mag praised that Robinson was experimenting with new influences and sounds, but said "it's just a shame some of the tracks don't quite hit the mark for our money". [17]

Billboard staff chose "Ghost Voices" as the 32nd best dance/electronic song of 2017, with Kat Bein stating that it is "the dankest song on the five-track self-titled EP. Its classic house groove and futuristic [touches] beckon you to the dark side of the dance floor and the web." [32] In an interview with the same magazine published in February 2018, DJ Calvin Harris stated that the Virtual Self project, in particular the track "Ghost Voices", "restored his love of dance music". [33] The Fader staff chose Virtual Self as an "artist you need to know about" in 2018, [34] and chose the EP track "Particle Arts" as the 63rd best track of that year. [35] "Ghost Voices" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards, marking Robinson's first ever nomination to the award. In a statement to Billboard in January 2019, Robinson said he had not even realized "Ghost Voices" had been submitted for consideration. He said he felt like he won "the moment it got nominated". [36] Robinson reported an "overall push for hardstyle and hardcore" after the Virtual Self project. [36]

Track listing

All music is composed by Porter Robinson.

Virtual Self tracklist
No.TitleLength
1."Particle Arts"3:54
2."Ghost Voices"4:26
3."A.I.ngel (Become God)"5:01
4."Key"3:32
5."Eon Break"3:40
Total length:20:33

Release history

RegionDateFormatLabel
Worldwide [24] November 29, 2017 Digital download · streaming Virtual Self

Commercial performance

In the United States, Virtual Self sold 1,000 copies in its first week of release. [37]

Chart (2017)Peak
position
US Dance/Electronic Album Sales ( Billboard ) [37] 8
US Heatseekers Albums ( Billboard ) [37] 21

Notes

  1. 1 2 Robinson has cited 1998–2003, [1] [13] 1999–2003 [2] [4] or the early 2000s as the periods of inspiration for Virtual Self. [1] [2] [3] [4] For simplicity, "early 2000s" will be used in some instances, as it is the most mentioned by Robinson in interviews.

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